Savings & Pensions

Wall Street Journal - Gender Split on Retirement Worries

The complexity of preparing financially for retirement can make anyone nervous -- but a new survey finds women are more worried than men about the challenges ahead, particularly inflation, health-care costs and outliving retirement savings.

Eighty-three percent of women surveyed are very or somewhat concerned about how inflation will affect their ability to pay expenses in retirement, compared with 69% of men, according to the survey of about 1,200 pre-retirees and retirees, ages 45 through 74, all of whom had some retirement savings.